Agreement Relating To The Frequency Of Sessions Of The South Pacific Commission

﻿Agreement relating to the Frequency of Sessions of the South Pacific Commission

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THE GOVERNMENTS of Australia, the French Republic, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, New Zealand, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the United States of America,

DESIRING to amend the provisions of the Agreement establishing the South Pacific Commission opened for signature at Canberra on 6 February 1947, and

CONSIDERING that Article XVIII of the said Agreement provides that the provisions thereof may be amended by consent of all the participating Governments,

HAVE AGREED as follows:

Article I

Paragraphs 11 and 12 of Article V of the Agreement establishing the South Pacific Commission opened for signature at Canberra on 6 February 1947, shall be amended to read as follows:

"11. Irrespective of the place of meeting, each senior Commissioner shall preside over sessions of the Commission for one calendar year in rotation, according to the English alphabetical order of the participating Governments.

12. The Commission may meet at such times and in such places as it may determine. It shall hold one regular session in each year, and such further sessions as two-thirds of all of the senior Commissioners may decide to be necessary."

Article II

The present Agreement shall come into force on 1 July 1954.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF the undersigned, being duly authorized by their respective Governments, have signed the present Agreement.

DONE at Canberra this fifth day of April 1954, in the English, French and Netherlands languages, each equally authentic, the original of which shall be deposited in the archives of the Government of Australia. The Government of Australia shall transmit certified copies thereof to all the other signatory Governments.